MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic educational technology are empowering
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
need
to better understand
these
compelling new open educational
initiatives.
Professors want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
knowledge
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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